Sunday, November 20, 2016

Red Velvet Cupcakes with Moustaches for Movember

This month is Movember. During Movember, guys grow 'taches for money to raise funds for the Movember Foundation to address some of the biggest health issues faced by men: prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and mental health and suicide prevention.

My work has a fundraising team, and I decided to help out by organising a Movember morning tea, entry by gold coin donation.

To make my cupcakes Movember-fit, I adorned them with moustache faces. I iced the top of the cupcakes with vanilla buttercream (my usual Primrose Bakery recipe), then topped that with rounds of white fondant. I then made the 'taches from rolled black fondant:

It was a little fiddly, but I think they look great.We raised $62.40 for our Movember team, which is a good outcome as we only have a small office and a lot of people were away on the day.